The Best and Worst Iced Coffee Drinks & Frozen Coffee Drinks

How to order a healthier iced coffee.

The popular Starbucks Frappuccino set the stage for our love of iced coffees and frozen coffee drinks at fast-food
restaurants like McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts, Seattle’s Best and Einstein Bros. But each of these choices and more come
with varying degrees of nutritional value. Here’s a look at how 16-ounce iced coffee and frozen coffee drinks stack up
nutritionally, in terms of calories and fat, at some popular fast-food restaurants.

Overall, you can make the best choices by choosing the smallest size available, opting for skim milk and asking your
barista to withhold any whipped or chocolate topping. Ordering the iced coffee (mocha) version of each of these drinks
can cut the calorie load significantly—in some shops by as much as half. Also, a straight-up iced coffee (with skim milk,
which you might have to specify) is, of course, the skinniest sip—most of the 16-ounce varieties deliver less than 100
calories.

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EatingWell Frozen Mochaccino

If you lust after those frothy frozen coffee drinks at your local coffee shop, then this mochaccino recipe is for you.
This easy homemade version uses low-fat milk, cocoa powder, coffee and just a little bit of maple syrup, so it has a
fraction of the calories of a traditional version. (A small mocha frappuccino at Starbucks is 270 calories!) Coffee ice
cubes, made by freezing coffee in an ice cube tray, make this drink frosty and give it a big, strong coffee flavor.
Recipe by Joyce Hendley for EatingWell.